Simson Garfinkel
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Simson L. Garfinkel is an American computer scientist. He is the Chief Scientist and Chief Operating Officer of BasisTech in Somerville, Massachusetts.
2017 Simson Official Photo
NeXT
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NeXT, Inc. was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California. It was founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer co-founder who had been ousted from Apple earlier that
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…where he developed a server allowing CDROMs to be shared over a network simultaneously by multiple workstations. In 1991, while a senior editor at NeXTWORLD magazine, Garfinkel created an address book program for the NeXT Computer called SBook. One of SBook's most popular features was a search field that…
Headquarters in Redwood City, pictured in July 2022
Steve Jobs, here pictured in 1984, founded NeXT in 1985.
This NeXT Computer was used by computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to create the world's first web server and the first web browser and editor.
NeXTstation with matching monitor